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It's Day 4 of our Turkey Day guide! And the home-stretch of Turkey Roasting 101. S0 – the bird is now perfectly roasted and ready to come out of the oven. You have already cleared a safe place for it, with surfaces protected if necessary from the intense heat of the roasting pan. Your cutting board with juice trough, sheet pan or warmed platter are situated close by………. uh… now what?!
Turkey Roasting Basics, Part 4
Give the Bird a Breather… Finally, it is time for a good rest. Unfortunately, that rest is for the bird, not for you. After the turkey is through cooking, remove it from the oven, and transfer it to the waiting board, pan or warmed platter. Then place it in a warm place (out of the way of any drafts) to allow it to 'rest' with the dressing still inside. Do not just place it on a flat cutting board. If that is your only alternative, place the board on a towel with a margin of towel exposed completely around the board. The extra juices may not be apparent at this point, but come as the bird rests, and if it is a lot of juice, you do not want to be scrambling around trying to save it, or cleaning up a mess. Transferring the bird will also free up the roasting pan for making gravy or a deglazing sauce.
Without elaborating on the kitchen science of 'resting', know that this allows the juices to settle back into the meat, and the meat to firm up enough for proper carving. Remove the tent if you were using one during cooking, and do not otherwise cover the bird so that the rising heat and moisture do not steam or soften the crispy skin. Depending on the size of the bird, give it at least 20 minutes or so. It is better to let the turkey get a little cooler, than rushing it and having the juices run from the meat.
Don't Rinse that Pan… The next order of oven roasting business is to attend to all of the fat, browned tasty bits and congealed cooking juices that have accumulated in the roasting pan. You will use this as a fondor base for flavoring your gravy. There are at least two different methods to do this.
With the first method, you drain most of the fat from the roasting pan, and use the remaining pan drippings to make the gravy right in the roasting pan.This results in a rich and delicious, more home-style gravy with little, tasty bits from the pan. The second method calls for deglazing the roasting pan with a liquid that will contribute to the taste of the fond such as a dry French vermouth, a dry white wine or some of your stock. You then simmer this deglazing mixture in a saucepan for several minutes. The resulting intensely flavored sauce is your fond. Both methods rely on turkey stock, which is another type of fond, as the hearty foundation and primary liquid for the gravy.
Basic Deglazing Sauce… To deglaze your roasting pan you will need to have your deglazing liquid prepared and ready. You can use a cup or so of one of the liquids just mentioned, or whatever liquid and amount called for in your gravy recipe. To begin, skim the excess fat from the pan and reserve. Now heat the roasting pan on the stovetop over medium heat, and use a long handled wooden spoon to scrape the bottom of the pan as it is heating to prevent scorching or burning. Most roasting pans are large enough that this requires using two burners at one time.
Once the pan is heated, carefully pour the liquid into the pan, and simmer for a minute or two as you continue scraping the bottom of the pan to gather all the bits, and congealed juices into the deglazing liquid. When most or all of the bits have released from the bottom of the pan and the congealed juices have liquefied, pour this mixture into a heavy saucepan.
Simmer this flavorful brown mixture for several more minutes, at least long enough to cook off the alcohol if applicable, and reduce the sauce to some degree, skimming any fat that rises in the process. Pass this deglazing sauce through a sieve with or without a cheesecloth lining, and your fond is ready to use according to your gravy recipe. Use this link to our articles on the basics of making a brown turkey stock and how to use it along with this deglazing sauce to make delectable pan gravy.


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(by David Alexander and Andrea Shalal, Reuters) WASHINGTON – The Pentagon said on Monday it would shrink the U.S. Army to pre-World War Two levels, eliminate the popular A-10 aircraft and reduce military benefits in order to meet 2015 spending caps, setting up an election-year fight with the Congress over national defense priorities.
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, discussing the Pentagon's plan for meeting its new spending caps ahead of the formal budget presentation on March 4, advanced a number of ideas that have been attempted in the past but rejected by Congress or are seen as likely to be unpopular in a congressional election year.
As the United States military winds down its war in Afghanistan and looks to cut billions in defense spending, the Pentagon plans to continue shifting its focus to the Asia-Pacific region and will no longer need a land Army of the size currently planned, Hagel said.
The department plans to reduce the size of the Army to between 440,000 and 450,000 soldiers, he said. The Army is currently about 520,000 soldiers and had been planning to draw down to about 490,000 in the coming year.
A reduction to 450,000 would be the Army's smallest size since 1940 – before the United States entered World War Two – when it had a troop strength of 267,767, according to Army figures. The Army's previous post-World War Two low was 479,426 in 1999.
The planned cut in the Army's size comes as the Defense Department is in the process of reducing projected spending by nearly a trillion dollars over a 10-year period.
A two-year budget deal in Congress in December gave the Pentagon some relief from the budget cuts, but still forced it to reduce spending in the 2014 fiscal year by $30 billion.
The Pentagon's budget for the 2015 fiscal year is $496 billion, roughly the same as in 2014 but still lower than had envisioned last year.
"This will be the first budget to fully reflect the transition DoD (the Department of Defense) is making after 13 years of war, the longest conflict in our nation's history," Hagel said.
"We chose further reductions in troop strength and force structure in every military service – active and reserve – in order to sustain our readiness and technological superiority and to protect critical capabilities," he said.
A senior U.S. defense official said the approach outlined by Hagel was "pragmatic and responsible," but noted that "with a smaller force there is less margin for error."
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, warned that a return to deeper budget cuts in 2016 would result in "our forces being too small and out of balance with respect to readiness and modernization."
Hagel said the Pentagon also planned to eliminate the Air Force's fleet of A-10 "Warthog" close air support planes, which are much beloved by ground troops, in order to ensure continued funding of the new long-range bomber, the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and a new aerial refueling tanker.
"This was a tough decision," he said. "But the A-10 is a 40-year-old, single-purpose airplane originally designed to kill enemy tanks on a Cold War battlefield. It cannot survive or operate effectively where there are more advanced aircraft."
In a reversal of an earlier decision, Hagel said the Pentagon decided to retire the 50-year-old U-2 spy plane in favor of the unmanned Global Hawk system. He said the decision to reverse course came about because the Pentagon had in recent years been able to reduce the Global Hawk's operating costs.
The Pentagon chief also announced a series of steps to try to reduce the Defense Department's military and civilian personnel costs, which now make up about half of its spending.
Hagel said the department would slow the growth of tax-free housing allowances, reduce the annual subsidy for military commissaries and reform the TRICARE health insurance program for military family members and retirees.
The defense secretary added that the Pentagon had decided to build only 32 versions of the new Littoral Combat Ship, rather than the 52 envisioned.
(Additional reporting by Phil Stewart; editing by Sandra Maler)
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire parks officials are seeking bids for catering services at Hampton Beach State Park.
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Surging enterprise and public-sector demand for Dell's servers, storage and networking components propelled second-quarter sales at the No. 3 PC maker up 22 percent from a year ago, enough to top Wall Street's quarterly revenue and earnings estimates. The company credits its strong quarter to a continuing corporate system refresh cycle and surging demand for IT services.
For its second quarter of fiscal 2011, Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) said sales totaled $15.5 billion, beating analysts' revenue estimates of $15.2 billion, according to Thomson Reuters data. Earnings before one-time charges came in at $0.32 per share, ahead of Wall Street consensus of $0.30 per share.
On a GAAP basis, income came in 16 percent higher than a year earlier, at $545 million, or $0.28 per share.
Dell credited the strong performance to a variety of factors, including a continuing corporate refresh cycle that helped cushion slow growth in its consumer business.
The company said overall revenues from its server and networking lines jumped 35 percent, with blades showing particular growth.
Storage also saw a healthy increase, rising 13 percent, with Dell's EqualLogic storage products proving especially hot, with revenue growing 63 percent.
Recent weeks have seen Dell moving to capitalize on mounting demand in storage with several acquisitions. Dell snapped up storage technology vendor 3PAR for $1.15 billion earlier this week. In late July, it bought Ocarina Networks, a player in storage deduplication.
Services also continues to be a major source of growth for Dell, as it has generally proven for rivals like HP (NYSE: HPQ). Dell said its services revenue increased 57 percent during the quarter to $1.9 billion -- sales that include the contribution of Perot Systems, which Dell acquired for $3.9 billion last year.
Mobile and desktop PCs also saw healthy growth, thanks to corporate IT efforts to refresh old systems, Dell said. The company said its mobility products saw 21 percent revenue growth over last year, while desktops jumped 17 percent.
Enterprise, Public Sector IT spending surge
While Dell's consumer group raked in $2.9 billion -- essentially flat from a year ago, and yielding a small operational loss -- spending among deep-pocketed enterprise IT departments and public-sector health care and life sciences customers skyrocketed.
In particular, the company's Large Enterprise segment customers spent a total of 38 percent more with Dell than they did a year ago, pushing revenues for the category to $4.5 billion. Within that customer group, Dell said sales of servers, services and mobility each grew more than 50 percent from last year.
Sales of products and services to public-sector clients outstripped even enterprise demand, however, with that segment contributing revenue of $4.6 billion, up 21 percent. With state and local government sales remaining nearly flat, a large chunk of that increase came from health care customers. Services proved especially strong in the category, with revenue increasing more than 100 percent from a year earlier, Dell said -- though those results again factor in Perot Systems revenue.
Small and midsized businesses also upped their spending with Dell. The company's SMB group saw strong increases, with revenue rising 25 percent to $3.5 billion. Sales of Dell SMB mobility products grew 32 percent, while desktop PC sales increased 29 percent from a year ago. SMB servers and networking offerings raked in 28 percent more revenue, while storage sales increased 22 percent.
Dell said demand for its products and services proved generally strong worldwide. Some areas saw tremendous growth, however, such as the company's business in emerging regions like Brazil, Russia, India and China. While the so-called BRIC countries accounted for only 12 percent of Dell's overall quarterly revenue, sales there grew 52 percent from a year ago, it said.
The company also said revenue from its Asia-Pacific and Japan group grew 38 percent, while the segment comprised of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) rose 24 percent.
Growth in sales within the Americas trailed behind, with an increase of 17 percent. However, the U.S. still accounts for the bulk (53 percent) of Dell's revenue -- though not by much.
Dell said that it ended the quarter with $13.1 billion in cash and investments, after cash flow from operations totaling $1.3 billion.
The company also said it doesn't see the corporate client refresh petering out for at least several more quarters, while it also expects federal government sales and commercial sales to grow slightly.
For the full year, Dell gave guidance of revenue growth between 14 percent to 19 percent, while earnings before one-time charges could rise 18 percent to 23 percent.
Christopher Saunders is senior managing editor at InternetNews.com, the news service of Internet.com, the network for technology professionals.


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"30 Rock" star Alec Baldwin recently dropped $2.25 million for a unit at the Devonshire building in New York City, reports The Real Deal—that's $75,000 over asking price.
The one-bedroom, one-bathroom pad is located in the pre-war Emory Roth-designed building.
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Baldwin and his yoga instructor wife Hilaria already own several units at the property, including the penthouse, which they bought in 2011 for $11.7 million. The unit includes three bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms, and a master bedroom suite that takes up an entire wing of the condo.
The latest unit does not appear to be attached to the main apartment, and there is a possibility it will be used as a home for their nanny—the couple had a child earlier this month.
Previously, the home belonged to Johan Lundgren, a travel company exec.
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Arsenal kept their top-four challenge on track with a routine 3-0 win over upcoming FA Cup final opponents Hull at the KC Stadium.
Lukas Podolski scored either side of half-time after Aaron Ramsey's classy opener to ensure Arsenal would remain ahead of Everton regardless of the Toffees' result against Manchester United.
Hull contributed well in the first half but Podolski's second goal soon after the break knocked the stuffing out of them, and they will need to improve before the sides meet again next month.
Germany playmaker Mesut Ozil returned to the Arsenal line-up for the first time since March 11 after passing a fitness test on his hamstring, while Hull strikers Shane Long and Nikica Jelavic were recalled having been cup-tied against Sheffield United.
The match was preceded by a minute's silence in memory of former City full-back Andy 'Jock' Davidson, whose 579 appearances represent a club record.
Visiting keeper Wojciech Szczesny then foiled Hull captain Curtis Davies from an early corner.
Play was bizarrely interrupted in the early stages when a section of pitchside advertising hoardings blew over, littering the pitch but fortunately without injury to any of the players.
Szczesny gathered Ahmed Elmohamady's deflected cross and was also out quickly to beat Long to a dangerous through-ball.
Ozil was denied a penalty when he tumbled over Elmohamady's challenge, with replays indicating some contact.
Jelavic's sharp shot on the turn then drew an impressive low save from Szczesny but Long took too long to line up his shot from Jake Livermore's sumptuous through-ball, firing high and wide.
In between, Steve Harper beat away a decent strike from Podolski's weaker right foot.
Elmohamady broke up a promising Gunners attack by poking the ball away from Podolski - but the visitors took the lead in the 31st minute.
A slick passing move ended with Ozil and Santi Cazorla playing in Ramsey, who had been involved early in the move back at halfway, to fire low inside Harper's far post.
An Arsenal win, perversely, could help Hull's Europa League claims - a top-four finish for the Gunners would see the cup-winner's place revert to Hull no matter the result on May 17.
But on-loan Spurs man Livermore was in no mood to settle for the status quo, and sent a low drive against the inside of a post with Szczesny hopelessly beaten.
Long failed to make a meaningful contact with Liam Rosenior's cross and was punished by a second Arsenal goal on the stroke of half-time.
Hull were incensed as Jelavic was not awarded a free-kick after Mikel Arteta's challenge - a borderline call - and when Arsenal countered quickly, Ramsey chested Olivier Giroud's cross down to Podolski who rifled home.
Cup hero Matty Fryatt replaced Long at half-time but could not get the better of Bacary Sagna and Szczesny from his first opportunity.
Nine minutes into the second half, Podolski made it three. Harper saved well with his foot from Ramsey's initial effort but could only present the German with a simple finish.
Jelavic's shot was deflected away for a corner, and from it the Croatian's header forced another, but Hull could not find the cutting edge.
Harper had a real let-off when he misread Rosenior's back-pass and hacked the ball against Giroud. The France striker chased down the loose ball but hit the bar from an acute angle.
Rosenior's cross eluded substitute Stephen Quinn, newly on for Jelavic, and at the other end Per Mertesacker almost diverted Cazorla's poor free-kick on goal.
Harper saved well from Ramsey before an increasingly rare Hull threat saw Tom Huddlestone's shot tipped over by an unsighted Szczesny.
The 2,000 visiting fans in the crowd of 24,762 made their own entertainment by chanting the name of beleaguered Tottenham boss, and boyhood Arsenal fan, Tim Sherwood.
Fryatt stung Szczesny's palms from range but the match fizzled out in the closing stages, with Arsenal content with their winning margin.


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It's now an accepted fact that our sense of taste is intrinsically linked to our sense of smell. But scientists now think that it can be heavily influenced by what we hear, too. Time to reach for Sounds of Skillet Bacon Vol. 2.
The Smithsonian reports a new study published in the journal Food Quality and Science which investigated the relationships between music and taste. In a blinded experiment, 20 tasters reported that high-pitched music made toffees taste sweeter compared to low music—even though they were exactly the same candies.
Elsewhere, a series of experiments carried out at the University of Oxford asked volunteers to match wines, milk and other foods with particular musical notes. They found that that sweet-tasting desserts tend to be matched up with high notes, while deeply savory dishes tend to be paired with brassy, low-pitched sounds.
Charles Spence—an expert on multi-sensory experiences—has found that it's even possible to sway our experiences of taste. Speaking to The Smithsonian, he explained:
"We've shown that if you take something with competing flavors, something like bacon-and-egg ice cream, we were able to change people's perception of the dominant flavor-is it bacon, or egg?-simply by playing sizzling bacon sounds or farmyard chicken noises."
So, what's happening? Are we primed by advertising? Is it something to do with the way parents offer up food? Actually, it's unclear to all these researchers why the effect exists. Which probably means you shouldn't worry about it too much—just stick on your favorite falsetto-laden track and shovel candies down your throat. They'll taste all the sweeter for it. [The Smithsonian]
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Many job openings are never advertised or publicly announced but filled through networking contacts. The old saying, "It's not what you know, but who you know," makes networking an effective and efficient way to find employment.
Networking means developing a broad list of contacts and accessing them when looking for a job. The best place to start developing your network is with your family, friends, and neighbors, because they know how great you are! Expand your network with your Career Coach, alumni, professors, and professionals working in your field.
Continue to broaden your network through volunteering, participating in extra-curricular activities, completing internship experiences, and joining professional student organizations. Your Career Coach can help you identify alumni in the Student Alumni Mentor Network who have volunteered to help students in their networking efforts.
Informational interviews with professionals working in your field will help you gain more information about an occupation or an industry. These individuals can also help you expand your network by referring you to their colleagues and co-workers. You can conduct your informational interviews in person, by telephone, or via email. Ask the individual what he/she prefers (see Informational Interviewing).
Prior to scheduling informational interviews, make sure you have a well-developed, targeted resume. Your Career Coach can help to ensure you are marketing your qualifications appropriately. During the informational interview, ask for advice on your resume and offer to leave a copy with your contact. Make sure to send a follow-up thank you letter or email in a timely fashion showing your appreciation for your contact's time and assistance.
Consider developing a spreadsheet or database for organizing your networking contacts. This will help you track the contact you've had with this ever-expanding list! Remember, in order for your networking contacts to remember you and your skills, you must continue communicating.
Above all, networking is a skill that requires practice and patience. You will use these networking skills throughout your career. Every relationship you develop increases the likelihood of your getting a job offer!
Build Your Network Through:
- Alumni and Employer Contacts
- Alumni Organizations
- Networking Sites (LinkedIn)
- Faculty and Advisors
- Clubs and Professional Organizations
- Former Employer Contacts
- Family, Friends, and Neighbors
- Sororities and Fraternities
- Classmates
- Church Groups
- Hobby/Sport Groups
- Conferences, Seminars, Workshops
- Political Groups
- Service Providers (dentist, insurance agent, etc.)
- Volunteer Organizations
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Akdamar island
The tiny island of Akdamar, just off Lake Van's southern shore, is home to the exquisite tenth-century Armenian Surb Khach or Church of the Holy Cross. Recently restored to the tune of US$1.5 million by the Turkish government, it stands as a glimmer of hope of reconciliation between Turks and Armenians. A metal cross has been erected on the conical dome of the church, and there's now an altar inside; services are held at irregular intervals.
The church was erected between 915 and 921 AD, at the behest of Gagik Artsruni, ruler of the Armenian kingdom of Vaspurakan. The small building is gracefully proportioned, but what makes it so special are the relief carvings that run in a series of five bands around the exterior. As well as animal scenes there are several depictions of Bible stories, including Jonah appearing to dive from a boat into the jaws of a most unlikely-looking whale (south facade), and David taking on Goliath, sling in hand (south facade). King Gagik himself is carved in bold relief on the west facade, presenting a model of Surb Khach to Jesus. A number of khatchkars – the Celtic-looking, obsessively detailed carved crosses that the Armenians used both as celebratory or commemorative offerings and as grave markers – are also set into the facade and scattered beneath the almond trees to the east of the church.
The frescoes inside, formerly in a shocking state, have been sensitively restored. It's possible to make out New Testament scenes such as the Baptism of Christ, the raising of Lazarus and the Crucifixion. Outside, to the south, are the partially excavated remains of the monastery complex of which the church was once a part.
Clamber up the steep hillside behind the church for spectacular views down over the church to the lake and, beyond, to the magnificent peaks that ring the lakeshore and run all the way down to the Iraqi border. Be wary, though, of plodding tortoises, and gull-infested cliffs that drop sheer into the azure waters below.
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It's been a crazy 24 hours in the world of Cardi B.
After posting a confessional video on Instagram announcing that she and her husband Offset were separated late Tuesday evening (December 4), the "I Like It" rapper shared the first ever full photo of her daughter, Kulture. "My heart," she simply titled the snapshot of a her pink-clad baby gazing longingly at someone who's not in the frame while lounging in her carseat.
The photo is interesting for a few reasons. First of all, the timing. Could her Migos ex be a reason why she was reluctant to share a photo of their child before now? Secondly is just that: reluctance. The new mama had made it clear she had no intentions of showing Kulture to the world. "My baby is beautiful, she looks like a real baby doll. I can't even believe I made something so beautiful... [But] even if [your] baby [is] pretty or not there's always going to be Internet trolls and [they] will say mean sh*t just for clout," she explained.
Regardless of the reason behind her change of heart, we're so happy to finally see what Kulture Kiari Cephus looks like.
Peep the photo below.
Cardi and Offset welcomed Kulture into the world in July, after secretly wedding last September. Now, just over a year after saying "I do," the couple is calling it quits.
"So everybody been bugging me and everything. And you know, I been trying to work things out with my baby father for a hot minute now. We're really good friends and you know we're really good business partners... He's always somebody that I run to, to talk to and we got a lot of love for each other but things just haven't been working out between us for a long time," Cardi shared in her video. "It's nobodies fault it's just I guess we grew out of love."
Though seemingly amicable, hours before Cardi made her announcement, inappropriate text messages between Offset and rapper Cuban Doll leaked, implying that the Migos star may not have been faithful to his wife. The alleged conversation went down in June, while Cardi was still pregnant.
As for Offset's thoughts on the whole situation? He believes public opinion may be to blame for his failed marriage. "Y'all won," he somberly commented on Cardi's video.
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It was clear from the moment Jim Chatters first saw the partial skeleton that no crime had been committed none recent enough to be prosecutable, anyway. Chatters, a forensic anthropologist, had been called in by the coroner of Benton County, Wash., to consult on some bones found by two college students on the banks of the Columbia River, near the town of Kennewick. The bones were obviously old, and when the coroner asked for an opinion, Chatters' off-the-cuff guess, based on the skull's superficially Caucasoid features, was that they probably belonged to a settler from the late 1800s.
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Now that the N/A DVD is out, I've got a hunch all you guys (and gals) are going to have a lot of questions. I discussed this with The Shadow and he's been gracious enough to approve me starting my own thread. Trust me, this isn't a question of ego nor pomposity -- neither of which are likely to exist in a television writer who's been kicking for around for as long as this aging warrior has been. Rather, the thinking here is that it'll be more efficient all of us to have all questions directed to me through a single thread instead of all over the place.
I'd like to kick this off by telling everyone what I thrill it's been for me to be on the Forum these past months. (And I look forward to being around as long as you'll all have me.) The support I've felt from ardent N/A fans has been heartening and I'm delighted to see that He-man fans who've never viewed the series, along with some loyal MOTU fans, are open to giving N/A a new chance. I must say I've enjoyed everyone's posting on this and all other forums. I've found He-man fans, by and large, are an intelligent, witty and engaging group. Stimulating conversation and interaction is difficult to find in today's world and I'm so very happy to have found it here. I believe we owe and enormous thank you to everyone involved with creating, maintaining and administering he-man.org. That's not smoke-blowing; just a simple statement of fact, because none of us would be enjoying these forums if it weren't for them.
To everyone posting, let me say from the start that I don't expect the N/A series to be embraced by everyone -- no series ever is. But I'm pleased that so many loyal MOTU fans seem to have gotten past their initial disappointment when N/A first debuted. So thanks to one and all.
What I'd like to do here is establish a few loose ground rules for all of us for this thread. First, I think it's a good idea for anyone not familiar with where I'd hoped to take N/A in Season Two, to take a look at my posts from #27 on in The New Adventures of He-man 1990 Annual thread. I think they pretty much lay out my thoughts and will hopefully give loyal MOTU fans a reason not to want to draw and quarter me.
Next, this thread is really intended to be a place for you all to ask me whatever questions you want. It should primarily be about N/A, but I have no problem fielding queries about the children's entertainment, toy and animation industries in general.
Please, no hate postings. Lord knows there's more than enough hate in the world already. So we don't need any more over, least of all over a toon. On the other hand, my fragile writer's ego has no problem with you offering a few superlatives. But seriously, postings about your relative likes or dislikes for N/A are more appropriately directed to the official N/A DVD feedback thread.
Two other minor matters, then you can fire away: 1) I had nothing to do with Skeletor's eyes, so please let's not get into that. 2) I had nothing to do with voice casting or voice direction. I was responsible for developing the series bible, writing thirty-seven episodes, story-editing some others and reviewing most of the storyboards.
One final bit of business. Although I know I've said it in other posts, I'd like to again say how very grateful I am to BCI for bringing out the DVD. It's wonderful for me to have this gift after all these years, but even more precious for me to see how it lights up my seven-year old son's eyes. So many thanks to all.
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SHORTLY after I began teaching, more than 30 years ago, three friends in different cities independently sent me the same New Yorker cartoon depicting a woman introducing a man to a friend at a party. "Mary, I'd like you to meet Marty Thorndecker," she began. "He's an economist, but he's really very nice."
Cartoons are data. That people find them amusing usually tells us something about reality. Curious about what drove responses to the economist cartoon, I began asking about the disappointed looks that appeared on people's faces when they first discovered I was an economist. Invariably they mentioned unpleasant memories of an introductory economics course. "There were all those incomprehensible graphs," was a common refrain.
Needless to say, a course can be valuable even if unpleasant. Unfortunately, however, most students seem to emerge from introductory economics courses without having learned even the most important basic principles. According to one recent study, their ability to answer simple economic questions several months after leaving the course is not measurably different from that of people who never took a principles course.
What explains such abysmal performance? One problem is the encyclopedic range typical of introductory courses. As the Nobel laureate George J. Stigler wrote more than 40 years ago, "The brief exposure to each of a vast array of techniques and problems leaves the student no basic economic logic with which to analyze the economic questions he will face as a citizen."
Another problem is that the introductory course is increasingly tailored not for the majority of students for whom it will be their only economics course, but for the negligible fraction who will go on to become professional economists. Such courses focus on the mathematical models that have become the cornerstone of modern economic theory. These models prove daunting for many students and leave them little time and energy to focus on how basic economic principles help explain everyday behavior.
But there is an even more troubling explanation for students' failure to learn fundamental economic concepts. It is that many of their professors may have only a tenuous grasp of these concepts, since they, too, took encyclopedic introductory courses, followed by advanced courses that were even more technical.
Consider, for example, the cost-benefit principle, which says that an action should be taken only if its benefit is at least as great as its cost. Although this principle sounds disarmingly simple, many people fail to apply it correctly because they do not understand what constitutes a relevant cost. For instance, the true economic cost of attending a concert -- its "opportunity cost" -- includes not just the explicit cost of the ticket but also the implicit value of other opportunities that must be forgone to attend the concert.
Virtually all economists consider opportunity cost a central concept. Yet a recent study by Paul J. Ferraro and Laura O. Taylor of Georgia State University suggests that most professional economists may not really understand it. At the 2005 annual meetings of the American Economic Association, the researchers asked almost 200 professional economists to answer this question:
"You won a free ticket to see an Eric Clapton concert (which has no resale value). Bob Dylan is performing on the same night and is your next-best alternative activity. Tickets to see Dylan cost $40. On any given day, you would be willing to pay up to $50 to see Dylan. Assume there are no other costs of seeing either performer. Based on this information, what is the opportunity cost of seeing Eric Clapton? (a) $0, (b) $10, (c) $40, or (d) $50."
The opportunity cost of seeing Clapton is the total value of everything you must sacrifice to attend his concert -- namely, the value to you of attending the Dylan concert. That value is $10 -- the difference between the $50 that seeing his concert would be worth to you and the $40 you would have to pay for a ticket. So the unambiguously correct answer to the question is $10. Yet only 21.6 percent of the professional economists surveyed chose that answer, a smaller percentage than if they had chosen randomly.
Some economists who answered incorrectly complained that if people could apply the cost-benefit principle, it did not really matter if they knew the precise definition of opportunity cost. So the researchers asked another group of economists to answer an alternative version of the question in which the last sentence was revised to read this way: "What is the smallest amount that seeing Clapton would have to be worth to you to make his concert the better choice?" Again, the correct answer is $10, and although this time a larger percentage got it right, a solid majority still chose incorrectly.
When they posed their original question to a large group of college students, the researchers found that exposure to introductory economics instruction was strikingly counterproductive. Among those who had taken a course in economics, only 7.4 percent answered correctly, compared with 17.2 percent of those who had never taken one.
Teaching students how to weigh costs and benefits intelligently should be one of the most important goals of introductory economics courses. The opportunity cost of trying to teach our students an encyclopedic list of technical topics, it seems, has been failure to achieve that goal. As Mr. Ferraro and Ms. Taylor put it in the subtitle to their paper, it is "a dismal performance from the dismal science."
ECONOMIC SCENE Robert H. Frank has been teaching introductory economics at Cornell University since 1972. He is the co-author, with Ben Bernanke, of "Principles of Micro Economics."


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Saturday night special, walk-off for Herd
Two and a half innings after Norfolk tied the game at, 5-5, the Herd ended it with a single off the bat of Jesus Feliciano into center-field for a, 6-5, win Saturday night at Coca-Cola Field.
Luis Figueroa leadoff the 11th- inning with a double into left-center-field and then Norfolk walked Nick Evans to set up the doubleplay. Fernando Martinez did just what the Tides wanted grounding into a doubleplay that left only Figueroa on base.
Norfolk avoided Valentino Pascucci, working pitches out of the zone and then intentionally walking him after getting to a, 3-0, count. Pascucci was followed to the plate by Feliciano who battled for eight pitches, fouling off five pitches before pushing a single just to the right of second base scoring Figueroa.
"Feliciano has been a really good player his whole career hitting wise and this is really his first time he hasn't felt good at the plate," manager Tim Teufel said. "But tonight was one of his better at bats that I've seen him give us in the last couple outings."
It is Feliciano's second walk-off hit of the 2011 season and his fourth at Coca-Cola Field during his career.
Just a half inning earlier the Bisons looked to be in trouble of letting the game get away after Brian Sweeny gave up a leadoff double to Tides catcher Tyler Henson. But he managed to get a pop-out to short center field and then struck-out the following two batters stranding Henson on second.
"Sweeny ended up pitching really well after that, getting a couple key outs and giving us a chance to come up in the bottom half and win the game," said Teufel.
The Herd erased a, 3-2, deficit in the seventh inning on a Fernando Martinez blast but Norfolk tied the game in the eighth-inning, 5-5.
Josh Bell started the eighth inning for Norfolk by hitting a leadoff homerun into left-field to pull the Tides within one-run. Norfolk managed to manufacture the second run after Tyler Henson singled into left-field and moved to second on a wild-pitch. John Hester followed him with a single into left-field scoring Henson.
Luis Figueroa scored the Herd's first run of the game, and leadoff the seventh-inning with a single into left-field. The red-hot Nick Evans followed him with a drive just inside of third base allowing Figueroa to move to third while Evans cruised into second.
With no outs Fernando Martinez approached the plate looking for his first hit of the game. He drove a homerun off the foul pole in right-field for his sixth-homerun of the season.
"It was nice to see Sweeny do a nice job out there and Feliciano hasn't had that big-big hit in a while and he got one tonight so it was a great way to end the game," Teufel said.
Game Notes: Nick Evans extended his hit-streak to 15-games in the first inning of Saturdays game driving a double down the right-field line…Valentino Pascucci grounded out in the first inning but in the process Luis Figueroa scored giving Pascucci his 47 RBI of the 2011 season…Nick Evans got his second hit of the game in the seventh-inning driving a double down the left-field line…Evans has multiple hits in, 11-15, games during his hit-streak…It was the Bisons fourth walk-off win of the 2011 season and the second time they have won on a Jesus Feliciano hit.


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The phone we've previously known as the HTC Kaiser or the 8925 has just been named the HTC TyTN II for the European market. The Windows Mobile 6 phone will be available under T-Mobile, Orange, Vodafone and Telefonica (includes O2), and will have the standard 3.5G connectivity, Windows Mobile 6, HTC's Home screen, GPS, TomTom Navigator 6, 3-megapixel camera, 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.0, microSD card and the flip-up screen. No price was specified, but if the first TyTN was any indication, this will be expensive. [HTC Europe]
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My 8125 is also dying a slow death. My battery is to about 50% every night. Since I skipped over the 8525, I am definitely getting the Tilt.


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The Servant Leader Initiative: A Development Model
First articulated in 1970 by management consultant Robert Greenleaf, the servant leadership model finds a natural home today at Aurora University. Launched in 2008, the Servant Leadership Initiative grew out of a financial gift from ServiceMaster Company chairman emeritus William Pollard, a champion of servant leadership who was inspired by the university's long tradition of service.
Mission of The Servant Leader Initiative
Promote the principle of servant leadership through education, application and reflection in the pursuit of more meaningful lives through service to the greater good.
Core Concepts
- Servant leadership is a lifelong, continuous process of learning, affirming and demonstrating.
- Servant leadership stems from a genuine commitment to serve the "greater good" through serving others.
- All people have unique gifts and talents that contribute to their success as servant leaders.
- Servant leadership concepts can be applied at both the individual and organizational levels.
- Servant leadership addresses ethical practices, globalization and religious diversity.
- The true test of servant leadership is best measured by its effect on those led.
Key Objectives
- Provides initial and ongoing training and development opportunities for aspiring servant leaders.
- Recognizes the need for affirmation of the skills and qualities essential to the ongoing practice of servant leadership and therefore fosters a network of interested individuals, institutions and organizations.
- Facilitates service opportunities both locally and internationally.
- Is committed to a broader communication of the philosophy through alliances with partner institutions, organizations and individuals, as well as research production and dissemination.


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Videos | December 22, 2006
Cassini at Saturn
The latest update for the Cassini mission to Saturn. Cassini sees lofty mountains on Saturn's largest Moon, Titan.
Transcript:Greetings from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. My name is Todd Barber, lead propulsion engineer on the Cassini mission to Saturn. Here with your latest update from the ringed planet.
Since our last update, Cassini imaged the loftiest mountains ever seen on Saturn's largest moon Titan. These mountains are more than a mile high and they are covered with organic material that apparently precipitated out of the Titan atmosphere. In addition the mountains are flanked by clouds as we can see in this infrared snapshot.
Other vistas on Titan that should be familiar to Earthlings include a potential volcanic flow deposit as well as Titan sand dunes. Titan sand however, is apparently made of organic molecules very unlike the sands of planet Earth.
We have radar images from our most recent fly by and they are soon to be released. We can't wait to see what that Titan surface looks like. All these Titan flybys are cranking up the orbit of Cassini to a more polar orbit of Saturn. This allows us to image the rings more like a disk, as you can see in this recent stunning image.
Next up for Cassini, is yet another Titan flyby. On December 28, 2006 our radio science team will measure Titan's gravity field for a possible subsurface liquid water and ammonia ocean. In addition, our infrared cameras will look at the Titan stratosphere measuring the chemical composition and thermal profiles.
Cassini closes out 2006 with a wonderful article in National Geographic magazine and a beautiful picture of Saturn on the cover of the December issue. Exactly 25 years ago, a Voyager spacecraft image of Saturn graced the cover of National Geographic inspiring this Kansas teenager to follow his dreams to southern California and into the cosmos.
Wishing you happy holidays from Pasadena, California and Saturn, this is Todd Barber from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.


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LAUREL HILL� The Laurel Hill city council voted unanimously to seek Okaloosa County's help in paving portions of Sunnyside Avenue and Steel Mill Creek Road on Thursday night.
LAUREL HILL � The City Council on Thursday voted unanimously to seek Okaloosa County's help in paving Sunnyside Avenue and a portion of Steel Mill Creek Road.
Councilman Larry Hendren said the Okaloosa County Commission responded favorably to his letter requesting road repair assistance.
"The county said the letter was fine with them, with the exception that they wanted us to add specific streets for the fiscal year," he said. "Then, every year after that, we simply redo the letter simply by adding different streets."
The city would cover the cost of material needed to repair the roads, whereas the county would provide equipment and labor, under Laurel Hill's proposal.
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Sunnyside Avenue, from State Road 85 to 3rd Street, was the first road added to the letter.
Councilman Robby Adams proposed that a portion of Steel Mill Creek Road be added.
The council then voted to add Sunnyside and the portion of Steel Mill Creek Road to the letter.
"I make a motion that we add Steel Mill Creek on, if there is enough in our budget," Councilman Clifton Hall said.
The council during a workshop last month discussed using $83,000 from a reserve fund on road repairs.
If the two streets extend so much that would cost that amount, the matter would be raised at the next council meeting, Hendren said.
Engineer may also write grants
In addition, Thursday, council members voted in favor of advertising for an engineer who could aid grant writing of a Community Development Block Grant, or CDBG.
The council last January voted to pursue the grant, which would give the city $600,000 for road repairs.
The city came close to obtaining the grant money last year, but fell short after a permit missing from the application eliminated Laurel Hill from consideration.
Hall suggested searching for an engineer capable of grant writing, which would preclude the need for a grant writer, too.
"We would be killing two birds with one stone," he said.
Candidates with grant writing experience would have an advantage in the selection process, Mayor Joan Smith said.
The council decided to give each finalist a chance to make a presentation at the next scheduled council meeting, 6 p.m. April 4 at City Hall.
Budget approval
The council voted to approve its budget, which includes moving $83,030 from reserved funds to a checking account for fuel tax revenue. The account's funds would be used for roadwork.
Another change included adding $200 to the payroll budget for each fiscal year.
"The $200 is covering the 2 percent increase in costs in Medicare and Social Security costs," City Clerk Nita Miller said.
Council members also unanimously voted to change council meetings to 6 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month. The council had been meeting on the first Tuesday.


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This page documents the operation of Noisebridge's front gate, located at 2169 Mission Street.
The gate is opened using the intercom pad inside Noisebridge, next to the door to the stairs. The "DOOR" button, illustrated with a picture of a key, opens the gate.
This switch can also be operated remotely, through an arcane and un-neccessarily convoluted system. A cable leads from the keypad through the machine shop, and up to a parallel port pair mounted on a PCB, just next to a hole in the South wall. The cable from the other side of this hole leads along the ceiling to a parallel port attached to the very top of the Wall O Tubes. This is a USB parallel port connected to Minotaur.
This USB parallel port is controlled by a daemon called gateman, which -- like all services on Minotaur -- is started automatically by Upstart. gateman is called by the Noisebridge API. Minotaur also hosts the keycode access system which uses API to open the gate. Other systems including the opengate script on Pony also open the gate this way.
- To open the gate from outside the space, see getting in.
- To open the gate from inside the space, use the "DOOR" button on the intercom pad.
- If you are too lazy to get out of your seat and, use the opengate script on Pony.
- If you are setting up another system to open the gate, write your application to use the Noisebridge API. The API only works from within the space, so you should probably run your service on Pony. Do not try to run your system on Minotaur unless you've brought it up at a meeting.


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Kelly Ripa doesn't just look flawless every morning on Live. She also looks flawless after a serious spin class workout! Her secret: Botox.
Who had the best cleavage at the Golden Globes?The morning show host told Elle that she gets occasional shots of Botox in her armpits to help her avoid sweating. But it's not just Ripa's pits that get spruced up."Every seven months or so my eyelid skin rests on my eyelashes," Ripa said. "So I feel like it makes my makeup artist's life easier, and it makes my eyes look a little more open on TV, which is where I happen to work right now."
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Release Date: March 22, 2013
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Among indigenous peoples across America and Canada there is outrage and a strong activist movement provoked by what they consider the destructive ongoing violations of the 400 year-old Two Row Wampum-Belt Treaty by American and Canadian governments and entities protected by them – violations Native Peoples say threaten not only indigenous health and culture but life on earth.
"Decolonization through Tradition," the ninth annual American Studies Storytellers Conference, to be held April 12-13 at the University at Buffalo, is presented by the American Studies Graduate Student Association, Department of Transnational Studies. Events will include:
"Our purpose this year," said conference organizer Steve Demchak, "is to reinvigorate the vision of peace, power and righteousness that was so clearly articulated in 1613 by indigenous and settler peoples with consideration to our future paths and generations in our respective boats.
"The important thing to recognize is that the Two-Row Wampum Belt agreement, which was signed in upstate New York, was founded on mutual respect based on friendship, peace and acknowledgment of each other's different traditions so long as the grass grows, the waters run, the sun rises and Mother Earth lives."
The keynote speaker will be Doug George-Kanentiio, Bear Clan, Askwesasne Mohawk, founder of the national Native American Journalists Association, former member of the Board of Trustees of the National Museum of the American Indian and chair of Round Dance Productions, a nonprofit educational foundation on Oneida land dedicated to the preservation of Iroquois culture. He is the author of many books and articles about native history and current issues, the latest of which is the book, "Iroquois on Fire: A Voice from the Mohawk Nation" (2008, University of Nebraska Press).
The conference will also feature dozens of indigenous scholars from across Canada and the U.S. who will focus on the consequences of these treaty violations and other problems provoked by colonialism and the current vigorous attempts by indigenous peoples to decolonize themselves.
Speakers will address such topics as national identity, oral traditions, language recovery and vitalization, indigenous sovereignty, land reclamation and use and environmental restoration and protection.
The John Mohawk Legacy Address will be delivered prior to the post-conference dinner by Rick W. Hill Sr., Beaver Clan, Tuscarora Nation, Six Nations Grand River Territory.
Hill, a UB MA '90 in American Studies, has since served as special assistant to the director for public programs at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. He now works as senior project coordinator at Deyohahage Indigenous Knowledge Center at Six Nations Polytechnic, Ohsweken, Ontario.
Demchek says the conference will be held in solidarity with the Two Row Wampum Belt renewal movement and the Idle No More movement, the latter founded by the First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples of Canada in response to a number of Canadian legislative omnibus bills, particularly the notorious Bill C-45, which they say threatens the continuation of our ecosystem and future generations.
As it has every year for the past nine years, the conference continues to honor its founders: the award-winning scholar author, editor, conflict negotiator and champion of the rights of indigenous peoples John Mohawk, PhD, and nationally known activist, well-loved teacher and scholar Barry White, both of whom were members of the Turtle Clan of the Seneca Nation of Indians and both of whom taught for many years in the UB Department of American Studies, which White helped to found.
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Craters in the Paint
We sometimes have problems with craters in the paint film on the motorcycle parts we manufacture.
Q. We have started having problems with craters in the paint film on the motorcycle parts we manufacture. This problem is very peculiar because it seems to come and go. For example, when we start up the line at 8 a.m. the paint film is OK, but by 9 a.m. the crater problem suddenly begins occurring. We often have the problem until 5 p.m., when the paint film becomes OK again. The next day the problem might start and end at different times, and its duration also changes from day to day. I can't find a core reason for the crater problem. Do you have any suggestions? F.H.
A. The problem you describe generally is caused by contaminants falling on the surface of the parts to be painted. These contaminants are often present in shop air and drawn into a paint spray booth along with make-up air. To solve this problem, you must isolate the contamination source or the painting operation.
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A typical contaminant is silicone, both liquid and solid, which could be coming from an operation elsewhere in your shop. From what you described, perhaps you are having the problem shortly after an unknown contaminating operation starts and the problem goes away after that contaminating operation stops. Furthermore, this problem started recently, perhaps after the addition of a new operation or use of a new material in your factory? These contaminants have been known to travel hundreds of feet in shop air from one area to another.
Your part surfaces also could be getting contaminated by passing near a contaminant-producing operation while being transported from another area in your factory to the painting area.
Try the following steps:
1) Identify the contaminant by a chemical analysis. It is usually present in the center of the crater.
2) Find the contamination source.
3) Isolate the contaminant or isolate the paint spray booth.
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The MCP Actions Annual Blog Survey is complete. I will leave the questions up, in case you missed it, but the results are in. And while my "Back to School" Multiple Choice Test was far from scientific, it did help me understand what you like, what you want more of, and what changes I can make to the blog going forward. Below, I will review and discuss each question and my thoughts.
At the time I am posting results, each questions had a sample size of between 1,320-1,460 participants. The drop off tells me the survey was a tad too long. But I knew that going in. I am showing results in % so it is easier to analyze. If you have opinions based on this data, please share them in the comment section. I welcome feedback.
At the very end of this post, check to see if you are one of the winners of the 6 Canon or Nikon Lens Mugs or the 3 MCP Actions $50 Gift Certificates.
As far as how people read the blog, the majority of people come directly to the MCP Blog or read it via Facebook. I was not surprised to see this. And at this time, no specific changes will be made. Know that you have options if you prefer a method listed, and it is not how you currently read it.
As far as frequency, most of you read it either daily or a few times a week (68% read one of those 2 frequencies). While I love the idea of people reading it every day, I only provide content 5-6 days a week, and I would say reading 2-3 times a week, you could certainly keep up. So thank you for reading what I write…
Most of you felt that I post with the perfect frequency, 81%, which is usually Monday-Friday, with an occasional weekend post. Sunday also is often used for contest winner notification, but I do not consider those true posts. 15% of you did wish there was even more content. I am flattered, but when do you find the time to read so much? I am so happy you want even more. And only 4% wished for less materials. Based on this information, I plan to keep quantity of articles and posts at the current levels.
This is where a more scientific survey would be helpful. I asked people to pick their favorite 3 parts of the MCP Blog. They do not completely match other questions in the poll. But unscientifically, the three top things readers love about the blog are:
- Photography Tips and Tutorials (26%)
- Before and After Step-by-Step Blueprints (14%) – these are done every Friday, and which become a permanent feature on the MCP Blog after last year's survey! See your feedback does matter.
- And tied for 3rd were Photoshop Video Tutorials (13%) and Photoshop Written Tutorials (13%)
I suppose I should have had Photoshop tutorials as all one category here for more accuracy, since the three types listed, video, written and step-by-step, add to 40%, and this would mean you actually like Photoshop tutorial most, and photography articles second most. Anyway, these two areas will be primary focuses ongoing. MCP Thoughts, where I discuss often controversial topics like how to deal with competition or how to price your photography are also a favorite as (9% of you chose that).
The other slight inconsistency is that Guest Blogger Articles ranked fairly low (3%), yet many of your favorite Photography Tutorials are written by guests. Again, this is probably due to my lack on knowledge on running a more scientific style poll.
This question "do you use the search features on the MCP Blog?" was most interesting to me, as it made me wonder if everything on my site shows up for everyone. In my redesign last year, I made search-ability a top priority. I wanted to make sure that you could find relevant articles from the past, more than 800 now exist. 31% of readers had no idea you could search. I am not sure, other than to educate, how to rely the search features. You can use the search box to type in any words or phrases, tabs at the top to search by popular categories, and also along the side you can search by a number of methods.
And now for the Wibiya toolbar, that strange red bar on the bottom of my site. Since the time I installed it a few months back, I have never loved it. And was super curious to see what all of you thought. Well, it looks like 67% of you are undecided or just don't care, but 16% HATE IT and say I should get rid of it, while only 7% say they love it. Hmmm – sorry lovers… It looks like Wibiya bothers more people than it helps. I will be making it disappear sometime next week.
Based on this chart and also based on the question about what people like most about the blog, I would say that all 3 types of Photoshop tutorials, written, video and Friday Blueprints, are liked equally. I will keep providing a mix of these.
This may have been the most sure response of all, frequency of the Photoshop tutorials. While a few people said they would like less, it was statistically insignificant and turn out to be 0%. We have learned that 25% are happy with the amount, but an overwhelming 75% of readers want more Photoshop tutorials. I will continue with weekly Friday Blueprints and I will try and work in more Photoshop tutorials, in either video format or written in the future. In the comments, some of you asked for Elements tutorials, and I will try and get more for you as well. Since there are only so many days, and this blog covers such a wide variety of topics, I still can only do a certain amount. I will keep this in mind and will also look for a few more guest bloggers to do some Photoshop articles, rather than just photography. Also remember that if you have not been reading since the very beginning, I recommend you going back and reading and watching older videos and reading past written tips and tutorials. There is so much information already here that you might be missing out on. So make sure to check everything out too.
The next section had to do with frequency of the type of posts. Based on the data collected, it appears people are extremely happy with the frequency/amount of Guest Bloggers (81%). Very few wanted more (13%) or less (6%).
Contests: Only an extremely small amount (2%) wanted less contests. Just over 1/2 (52%) said the amount of contests is perfect, and 46% said they wish I had more. Due to this, I will at minimum continue the frequency. I usually host contests weekly, and then after a few months take a few weeks off so I can have more content based posts. The next few weeks, I will be taking my "contest break" but coming in October you will have the opportunity to win Flash Photography mentoring (during a 2 week Flash series), a Tamron Lens, and some amazing camera bags. So keep watching for your chance to win. Every time someone wins, they always say, "I never win anything…" So remember, you could be the one.
The FAQ based posts, again only an extremely small amount (1%) wanted less of these, while 63% feel I do just the right amount of Frequently Asked Question style posts. And 36% want more. Chances are, similarly to contests, I will continue doing at least as many as I have been, leaning towards occasionally more.
As far as business and marketing posts, the number who do not want them increased a little (7%). I assume this is due to hobbyists who have no interest at all in business related posts. But even so, 55% say there are the perfect amount and 38% want more. I would say for the most part, I will continue mixing in marketing type posts. But will keep those not in business in mind too.
I occasionally get emails about my more "serious" topics in the MCP Thoughts area, like "What is a professional photographer?" or "How you should price your photography." Photographers will write and ask why I do opinion pieces or ask for opinions on what turn out to be controversial topics. Based on the survey, you will see people enjoy these. 53% said that I have the perfect amount, while 43% which I had even more. But another reason is they are viral, they promote thinking and self-expression. Just click on the two example articles I just mentioned. Look at the amount of shares on Facebook and Twitter – and then look at the amount of comments, especially on some of the pricing posts. I think you will get it then. For the few that do not enjoy these posts, you can always just skip right over them. Or try and keep an open mind and see all sides to the story. Listening to differing opinions often can challenge us and help us grow as both business people and as photographers.
Themed photo shares… I have gotten away from these a bit lately as I have had so much content. But in case you have no idea what these are, I would ask on the MCP Facebook Page for photos that fit a theme. People would submit them and my twins picked 10-15 for me to share. These posts are fun since I get to share reader's pictures and they can provide inspiration too. It seems that 62% feel I have the right amount – on average about one every month or two, though it has been a while. 27% wish I had more. And 11% want less. I likely will continue to do these as I have time and space for them. But for now, my blog is packed with some great content coming up, so it could be a while. Basically they will be low priority since they were toward the bottom of the list as overall favorites from one of the other questions too.
What software do you use? This was about what I expected, but is always interesting. The numbers speak for themselves. The top software readers surveyed have is Photoshop CS4 (19%), followed closely with CS5 (13%) and then CS3 (10%). As a 4-way tie for 4th most popular, coming in at 9% each: Adobe Camera Raw, Bridge, Lightroom 2 and Lightroom 3.
About the same amount of you have just my free Photoshop actions (44%) as have my fee-based Photoshop actions (43%). And only 11% don't have any MCP Actions. 1% each said that you either do not use actions or not own a program like Photoshop or Elements that can run them.
As for my online group classes, while I have a few thousand people, in more than 18 countries across the globe, clearly very few who have attended them did the survey, relatively speaking anyway. I do see that many would attend but times did not fit your schedules, and the upcoming months, I will consider options that might work for a broader audience. So thank you for sharing. For those of you prefer get the information for free on my blog and other sites, I always welcome you with open arms. You can always come rad, watch and learn from my tutorials, free actions, and guests. You never have to buy a thing – I aim for my free products and services to be of the same quality as my paid ones.
And lastly, social networking… Without much interpretation, you will see that most of you interact with me from Facebook (71%) and a small percent in other ways like Twitter and Flickr, etc. Social networking is so important for my business. So please, as a favor to me, keep recommending my website, blog and Facebook Page to your colleagues and photographer friends. I appreciate it!
And if you made it this far, or just scrolled down… here are the lucky winners:
To claim your prize, you need to contact me by Tuesday, September 21st, 2010. No exceptions. Prizes will be forfeited if I do not hear from you. For action prizes, just let me know what product you want to use your Gift Certificate on or toward. For the Lens Mug winners, please email me (firstname.lastname@example.com) your complete name and mailing address and I will have these shipped out to you within approximately 1 week.
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The days have all run together… which is great.
Yesterday we stayed on the beach for most of the day, and today I paid for it. I am quite crispy, but I will survive. :)
I started out the day waking up at 6:49!!!!!!!!! UGH!!!!! I ate my breakfast and chatted with Jesus while everyone else got around to waking up. While the others ate breakfast I happened to glance out the windows and see a whole crew of dolphins swimming on our shoreline. There were a TON of them. Their little fins kept popping up all over the place.
Those two little black spots…..yup dolphins. They were sneaky and I couldn't get much of a picture, this is with my good camera and a great zoom lens….. whatever, you get the point.
The guys didn't stay too long at the beach, the waves were a little low…….they headed to the condo to play more Black Ops, it was double xp you know. :)
This was our "cabana" for the day. Yes, it is a little ghetto…… but we loved it. :)
We had the seagulls join us for lunch, they had a great time snacking on bread crusts and potato chips.
We also had this visitor come and hang out right in-front of our cabana.
After the day at the beach we came back, got all cleaned up and then headed to our favorite pizza place --- the Mellow Mushroom!
We then skirted off to The Trac. Which is a place with go-carts and bumper boats, putt-putt, and an arcade inside. Jess and I headed for the skee-ball area and cleaned up on tickets!!!
for 101 tickets Jess and I split them and got 10 "friendship bracelets"!!!! WOO! yeah….
We had a blast though.
TODAY I slept in till a whopping 8:30!!! Whoo! No dolphins sightings this morning… :(
We finally got up and around and went to lunch at Ribs & Reds….
It was SOOOOOOO good!!! Although Jess and I ordered the Ribs and Reds lunch platter, which is ribs and shrimp…. we were both unaware that the shrimp came steamed with the heads on….. totally gross. I man-ed up and took care of my shrimp and Jessica's shrimp because it was freaking her out. BUT all in all it was super amazing. Thanks to Craig Alberius for the recommendation.
When then headed to the mall and I picked up a few goodies for me and Hello Ladies…..
(my new computer tote)
Brand won me a SpongBob from the claw machine. :) He has such a talent for those things.
HAD A BLAST TODAY! Don't have a clue what we are doing tomorrow, but it will be amazing. TAKE THAT BACK ….. Tomorrow we will be heading to our nearest music store and purchasing the NEW SWITCHFOOT album!!!! WHAT???? YES!!!!!


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Bud Shank, the late, great alto saxophonist is often quoted as saying: "The one thing you need to play this music is concentration."
But each musician goes about their business in a different way with regard to said "concentration."
I would checkout the lead trumpet and first alto parts of a big band arrangement and memorize where the cues were for the "kickers" so that I could really pop the drum fills that powered the arrangement forward.
The legendary guitarist Tal Farlow memorized the rapid harmonic runs of the monster pianist Art Tatum so that he could insert these in the parts of his solos where they would work - some trick!
Vocalists Bing Crosby and Billie Holiday channeled Louis Armstrong's trumpet phrasing into the manner in which they enunciated the lyrics to popular songs in order to make them sound "Jazzier."
But the epitome of the use of concentration in order to bring out the special inner qualities of a song's melody may be the one described in the following piece by the author James Kaplan that appeared in the November 29, 2015 issue of The Wall Street Journal.
"A friend of mine was flying back from Europe a few years ago and began talking with his seatmate, a gentleman who happened to be a Swedish opera singer. Somehow Frank Sinatra came up, and, as my friend told me, the singer suddenly turned very grave. "Ah," he said. "That is a voice without equal."
Something about Frank has sunk in deeply, from San Francisco to Stockholm. In his centennial year — he was born Dec. 12, 1915 — Sinatra is much in the air, and with good reason. We celebrate his artistry, his matchless personal style, his undying charisma, his apparently inexhaustible effect on American culture.
One question I'm often asked as a Sinatra biographer is what surprised me most about my research. I usually have the feeling—Frank being Frank — that some juicy tidbit of gossip, heretofore unearthed, is what I'm being asked for. My answer probably lets people down: The most surprising thing I found out was how very hard he worked on his singing.
Though he dropped out at 16 from A.J. Demarest High School in Hoboken, N.J., Frank had a brilliant and inquisitive mind; he was verbally gifted, with an original way of expressing himself in the many notes and letters he wrote over the decades. For instance, in 1988 Daniel Okrent wrote an Esquire essay praising Sinatra's late-age durability. In response, the Chairman sent Mr. Okrent a graceful missive thanking him for helping to "explain me to me with a rose in your prose" and for applying his "X-ray word-processor to see so deeply into the heart and soul of this very lucky son of Hoboken who remains eternally overcome at God's plan for his life."
Sinatra was a self-educated man, a lifelong reader, mainly of biographies. When it came to popular songs, the lyrics mattered as much to him as the music, if not more. And as soon as he began singing professionally, he started a practice that he continued throughout his career.
"I take a sheet with just the lyrics. No music," he once told the casino mogul Steve Wynn."At that point, I'm looking at a poem. I'm trying to understand the point of view of the person behind the words. I want to understand his emotions. Then I start speaking, not singing, the words so I can experiment and get the right inflections. When I get with the orchestra, I sing the words without a microphone first, so I can adjust the way I've been practicing to the arrangement. I'm looking to fit the emotion behind the song that I've come up with to the music. Then it all comes together."
Once he sang that number, on record or on stage, he inhabited that lyric, felt it so deeply that anyone listening felt it, too. Combine that with his genius ear and the phrasing he learned from Billie Holiday's vocals and Tommy Dorsey's trombone solos. The result is that Sinatra gives the eerie impression that he is thinking these thoughts, feeling these feelings, in the moment the listener is hearing about them. Nobody else quite manages to bring this off.
I've studied and written about Frank Sinatra for 10 years, and though I've sometimes disliked him, I've never been bored with him. His best singing—of which there is a very great deal—still gives me goosebumps, every time. I believe that we will still be celebrating Sinatra, and listening to him, next year, and the year after that, and (as the title of another of his numbers has it) a hundred years from today.
Mr. Kaplan is the author of "Sinatra: The Chairman," just out from Doubleday."